Nurses Day! - Birmingham Children's Hospital

SECTION ONE
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Our journey through the year
Delivering excellent care today
Every child and young person requiring access to care at Birmingham Children’s Hospital
will be admitted in a timely way, with no unnecessary waiting along their pathway.
For yet another year running, the number of
children and young people who used Birmingham
Children’s Hospital has grown. We’ve worked hard
during the year to develop and grow our services
so that we can continue to provide world-class
care for all of our children and young people, and
more quickly, whether this be in our hospital, at our
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at our
Parkview site in Moseley, out in the community or
at home.
As one of the country’s leading specialist hospitals,
lots of children and young people with very serious
or life-threatening conditions come to us in need
of care from our specialist teams in theatres and
intensive care. This unfortunately means that from
time to time we have to reschedule less urgent
procedures.
Nobody wants to wait a long time to see a doctor
or consultant or have an operation cancelled,
so over the last year we have made significant
changes to the way we work to help reduce our
waiting times.
We’ve created space for an extra 11 beds in our
brand new, bright and modern Paediatric Intensive
Care Unit (PICU) extension which opened in
November 2012. The unit also includes a new
breast feeding room, two parents’ rooms, a
bedroom and a reception area.
This increases our total capacity to 31 beds, 26 of
which are open now, which will make us the largest
single site unit in the UK. This means we can care
for more of the sickest children and young people
who need our help every year and reduce the wait
for surgery.
Our new £2.1m Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU),
which opened in February 2012, has been a
resounding success and has gone from strength to
strength throughout the year.
Built in the space which formed the old ward 14,
PAU offers a place for children and young people
needing short medical or surgical admissions to
the hospital (around 24 hours or less), making
access to care quicker and ensuring they get the
right treatment and care in the right place, at the
right time.
This is an important stage in the development
of our emergency care pathway which provides
a much better patient experience overall by
improving patient flows through the hospital as
these patients don’t need to be managed alongside
highly complex patients on other hospital wards.
We are really proud that we have been able
to maintain our high standards of care whilst
increasing our capacity and flow, which is evident
in the positive patient feedback we regularly
receive from our children, young people and
families.
Our Kids Intensive Care and Decision Support
service (KIDS) has gone from strength to strength
with another extremely busy year.
The 24/7 service, which specialises in the
management of critically ill children presenting to
their local hospitals and during transfer to intensive
care, moved to a new bespoke operations centre
with state of the art telecommunications in May
2012. St John Ambulances and drivers are now
onsite with the KIDS team which has dramatically
reduced the KIDS mobilisation time and allows
even closer team working.
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This is the first time I’ve been to children’s with my
little boy I can’t thank the staff enough! They are so,
so polite and kind you forget you’re in a hospital.
Amazing people and place, sounds like I’m talking
about Disneyland lol. I will be talking about it for
weeks to come.